Little Richard, Rock and Roll Pioneer, Incendiary Performer, Dead at 87 | Pollstar News

Little Richard, one of the chief architects of rock ‘n’ roll whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, died Saturday after battling bone cancer. He was 87. [from https://ift.tt/2a8mQyu]